From huge QT to data DVD- what works best

The family history is at stake. And my sanity. The entire family home movie/video collection got put on a portable hard drive. Big QT files, 20-30GB. My job: burn them onto data DVDs so a couple of us can edit sections. Not QT movies, data. What is the most efficient way to do this? I import a big file. Create a bunch of 10 minute sequences. Export as standalone QT movies. Each one takes over two hours. What? Correct me if I am wrong but if I had captured this video instead of importing, I could just burn the capture scratch files. Importing is different, there is no capture scratch folder? Sorry, this don’t add up. Someone smarter than me must have figured this out. I’d appreciate knowing how you would do it cause I am lost. Thanks.

Hello Distal -- sorry if I am a bit confused by what you wrote, but if you are just trying to get the files to other folks so you can edit different parts, you can either:
1) Just give the portable hard disk to the other guys to copy the files onto their Macs, and give the disk back to you
2) Burn "Spanned DVDs" using something like Toast Titanium (use Mac-only format to enable disc spanning) in lieu of giving the hard disk to other people; this may take 10 DVDs (for up to 47 GB approx.)
(The reason I am confused is because it seems as if your data is ALREADY on your hard disk, irrespective of whether or not you need to grab files from some capture/scratch folder, etc.).

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